RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts

TLS in French, one page, 8.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, January 16, 1924. Letter to lifelong friend and collaborator Lucien Garban, who arranged an

Important Italian composer (1792–1868) who became one of the seminal figures in the history of opera with such repertoire staples as The Barber of Sev

Desirable collection of three items: a 3.5 x 5.5 postcard photo of the composer at his piano, signed in bold ink, “C. Saint-Saens, 1909”; an ALS signe

TLS signed in pencil, one page, 5.75 x 8.25, August 16, 1950. Letter to famed piano makers Steinway & Sons. In part: “I wish to thank you once m...

ALS, one page, 6 x 9.25, Hotel Mayfair letterhead, November 20, 1927. Letter to his close friend, the publisher and musicologist James Francis Cooke i

German composer, violinist, and conductor (1784–1859). Two items: a two-bar AMQS on a 6.25 x 7.75 sheet, signed and inscribed in German to his grandda

Two items: a TLS in French, signed “Happy Easter, Igor Stravinsky,” one page, 8.5 x 11, April 6, 1944, in part (translated): "Bottles of French...

TLS, one onionskin page, 8.5 x 6.25, stamp-dated September 9, 1955. Letter to Arnold Weissberger, in full: “I received your letter and two tickets fro

Ink signatures, “E. Albani Gee, 1882, Nottingham” and “and her humble servant and admirer, Arthur Sullivan, 25 March 1886,” on an off-white 6.75 x 8.7

Partly-printed DS in Italian, signed “G. Verdi,” one page, 7 x 5.5, February 12, 1873. Receipt for his publisher Tito Ricordi acknowledging a payment